Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. It is a special day celebrating love, affection, and kindness toward everybody, celebrating that “love is love.” On this day, gift-giving is important to make your loved ones realize that they are special and beautiful. While material gifts are in vogue, bouquets never go out of style.
Beautiful and fragrant flowers remind one of cherished moments and encourage one to make more. The only downside to gifting flowers is that they wither fast if no proper care is provided. Thankfully with the advancements of technologies and experiments, keeping a bouquet or multiple bouquets fresh is easy and hassle-free.
Why Bouquet Care Matters: Extending the Life of Your Valentine’s Flowers
From relationships to bouquets, everything requires proper, step-by-step care for longevity. Imagine a loved one handing you out a fresh bouquet of red roses this Valentine’s Day. You would want to protect as long as you can. These flowers carry their love, passion, and affection towards you. It is a token of love and promise to cherish each other.
This is why Fresh Sends, makes sure to the right flowers to ensure quality and longevity. We pack them with care so that they reach you in the best shape. Our high-quality and hand-selected blooms are the perfect touch of personalization so that the bouquets feel extremely personal and full of emotions. We understand your love and we are happy to be a part of your story.
Essential Tools and Supplies for Bouquet Care
Bouquet maintenance goes beyond simply placing flowers in a vase of water. Proper care involves a few essential steps: unwrapping, trimming, using the right water, setting up suitable lighting, and dedicating a little time each day for upkeep over the next few days.
Sharp scissors or pruners
Start by keeping a pair of sharp shears handy for clean and precise trimming of stems and foliage.
A clean vase
Next, select an appropriate vase—one that is clean, spacious, and allows the flowers to breathe without overcrowding, especially for larger arrangements. A clean vase also prevents bacterial growth, which can harm the flowers.
Flower food packets
Flower food, available at most florists, is another key component. It provides essential nutrients to keep your bouquet vibrant and fresh.
Water temperature tips
Finally, use clean, filtered, lukewarm water—just as vital for flowers as it is for humans—to ensure your bouquet lasts as long as possible.
These simple materials are the foundation of effective bouquet maintenance.
Preparing Your Bouquet for Longevity: First-Day Essentials
Getting a bouquet brings a host of happiness and joy altogether. But to maintain it, dumping it into a vase of water is not the right way to go. Bouquet maintenance is quite simple with the following steps:
Unwrap With Care
First, patiently unwrap it. The florist wraps it to look, just as special as the recipient and the occasion. However, maintenance requires unwrapping it because that restricts the respiration of flowers.
Trim Stems Properly
Then, grab those shears and cut the stems at an angle of around 45°. The sharp cuts maximize the ability to absorb water and nutrients from the flower food. Cut away all the extra foliage and dried leaves or petals.
Remove Lower Leaves
Make sure the leaves and other dried-up parts are immediately cut off and not submerged in the water because that catalyzes rotting.
Use Clean, Filtered Water
Then add the flower food to the water and prepare the vase. The vase should be clean and devoid of any mold or bacterial growth. The water should be lukewarm and filtered.
These steps are easy to follow and are essential to keep the bouquet long-lasting and fresh.
Daily Care Tips to Prolong the Life of Your Bouquet
Once the bouquet is in the vase, the next thing that should be taken care of is the daily maintenance of it. Bouquets are made of flowers and flowers come from plants. Just like plants need daily tending, bouquets do too, and more than the plants require it.
Change Water Regularly
Make sure to change the water regularly. Water is food for the flowers. Just like us they need fresh water to live longer. Therefore, change the water on a daily basis to keep the fresh and hydrated.
Re-trim Stems
For better absorption of nutrients and water, trim the dried and dead foliage or petals. Dried parts slow down the absorption rates and take up water and food when they have no requirement for it already.
Monitor the Placement
Placement of the bouquet or vase is vital. Flowers should not be placed under direct light or sunlight, heat, or drafts. These are detrimental for the flowers and they wilt faster.
Add Flower Food As Needed
The next thing is adding flower food as a requirement. Food is essential for the flowers to stay alive as long as possible.
Want the Valentine's bouquet to last long? Just maintain these steps and it is taken care of.
Common Mistakes That Shorten the Life of Flowers
Certain mistakes are commonly made that, unfortunately, hamper the longevity of the bouquet. Let’s avoid them at all costs.
Neglecting Water Changes
The first mistake was forgetting to change the water or not changing it. Fresh water helps in better transmission of nutrients in the flowers to keep them as good as new. Therefore, water is vital.
Using Dull Scissors
Sharp shears are essential for making clean cuts while trimming foliage, ensuring optimal nutrient and water absorption for the flowers. Also ensure to remove the dried leaves and petals as they encourage bacterial.
Placing Bouquets Near Ripening Fruit
Then the most commonly made mistake- keeping the flowers near ripening fruits for decorative and aesthetic purposes. This is a serious no-no situation. Ripening fruits produce ethylene gas which is colorless and odorless. This gas is responsible for faster wilting in flowers. Flowers die prematurely if they come into contact with this gas.
So, bouquet longevity is dependent on how many of these mistakes are avoided.
Specific Care for Popular Valentine’s Day Flowers
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and getting a bouquet made with your favorite flowers is bliss. That memory should be preserved, and the bouquet too, for as long as possible.
Each flower has its specific care style that needs to be applied; otherwise, wilting occurs fast. For example, roses need constant trimming, change of water, and addition of flower food. For lilies, apart from the obvious pollen removal is important to prevent stains. This also extends the freshness and longevity of the flowers.
In the case of tulips, their vibrant colors need maintenance. Their stems should be trimmed at an angle while the color is still almost 75%. Tulips are very unique since they arrange themselves once they are kept in the vase. Make sure to remove the dry leaves from the bottom of the vase.
For exotic flowers like orchids, maintaining water hygiene and quality is crucial. Orchids thrive on proper hydration, making regular water changes essential. However, be cautious of overwatering, as it can harm the plant—ensure a proper drainage system is in place to prevent this.
Understanding the unique needs of each flower type makes caring for them much easier. Take the time to research their specific requirements or consult with a local florist for expert advice and
The Role of Fresh Sends in Ensuring Longer-Lasting Bouquets
Fresh Sends is known for providing the freshest and highest-quality blooms for every occasion significant or personal. From Valentine’s Day to Mother’s Day, we got you covered!
Handpicked Blooms
We handpick every flower to ensure top-notch quality because flowers are sentimental and they speak volumes.
Thoughtful Packing
Such delicate yet powerful things require personal care from picking to preserving. We wrap them delicately and protectively so that the petals remain proper and do not break during transportation.
Next-Day Delivery
We ensure the delivery of the flowers in their pristine conditions- soft, fragrant, and hydrated.
We offer the next-day delivery ensuring to get the best blooms for your loved ones.
We curate gifting ideas and bouquets based on specific occasions and events such as Valentine’s Day. Our Valentine’s Day collection has bouquets of roses, lilies, and many other exotic flowers. We also provide options to send candles, perfumes, hand creams, candies, or cookies. Order your favorite option of bouquet from the collection right now.
Eco-Friendly Care Tips for Sustainable Bouquet Maintenance
Bouquet maintenance does not have to be wasteful or have adverse effects on the planet. The vase water can be reused to water the plants or to wash vehicles for that matter. Dried, dead, and wilted flowers can be composted to get a mineral-rich soil. Flowers can also preserved by drying them up and putting them in a diary or a book. That is sentimental and it shows the immense value these beautiful gifts of nature hold.
Finally, flower food always does not have to be chemically enriching. Just two tablespoons of lemon juice and a tablespoon of sugar in the vase water can do the trick!
Lasting Flowers Forever Memories
Flowers speak a lot just by being the thing of beauty that they are. Bouquets show how caring and thoughtful a person can be towards the recipient of it. They serve as symbols of love filled with sentiments and commitments that love exists and it is the strength to overcome every hurdle.
Therefore, bouquets should be maintained by putting in simple efforts like changing water, adding flower food, trimming the stems for better preservation, and keeping them under proper light, temperature, and environmental conditions. So much for the delicate and lovely bouquets but where to find them? At Fresh Sends- for handpicked freshest flowers, delivered to your doorstep the very next day.